Mary Elizabeth Groom studied under Claude Flight at the Grosvenor School of Art and under Leon Underwood at his Brook Green School contributing to the in-house journal “The Island” with wood engravings. A member of the Society of Wood Engravers and a founder member of the English Wood Engraving Society from 1926. She was a book illustrator working for the Golden Cockerel Press in the 1930’s. for which she illustrated Paradise Lost among others. Ref: Garton: British Printmakers. 1992.